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Metaphysical theatrics hits the UMS stage
- Courtesy of Complicite
By: Ben VanWagoner
A dusty blackboard onstage read “1+2+3+4+5…= -1/12.” Clearly nonsense, an impossibility swept in for theatrical effect. “A Disappearing Number” is, after all, a play rich with phantasms — numbers glow and float across the stage and otherworldly lighting sets a strange, metaphysical tone. Yet standing beside the board was an actor who seemed to enforce its possibility just by being flesh and blood.
